If you can do either, not necessarily at the same time, then you could help our village church.
Steve Polhill, who was organist at St Nicholas’ for more years than anyone seems able to remember, died recently, and now we have no-one to play for our Sunday services. We are relying on ad hoc help from a pianist, and have even had priests multi-tasking, leading the service and playing the organ – if you were at the Carol Service in December you would have seen this in action. And very
impressive it is, but obviously not tenable in the long run. So, hence my question – can you play the piano? If you can, and could play for a service even occasionally we would be very grateful. You could either use the organ – you don’t have to operate the stops or do the clever stuff with your feet – or we could provide an electric keyboard. The hymn book we use has relatively simple settings – not at all like those in Hymns Ancient and Modern, where the pages are black with notes! And of course, no-one would expect you to sight-read – we can give advance notice of the selected hymns. So, if you think you could do this, do get in touch with Rosemary Mapleston, or me, Val Moran.
And as to the flowers – well. It’s often feast or famine in our gardens, so if you have spare flowers, please think about putting them in the church, which is open every day. Any time from Easter onwards – just leave them in some water – we would love to have them. We are all aware of looking after the environment, and at St Nicholas’ we believe that flower miles are as important as food miles, so if our flowers come from our neighbours’ gardens, then so much the better.